In a Kolkata hospital : ‘I can’t give you a glass of water here’

THE resting room in the School of Digestive and Liver Disease at the SSKM Hospital is cramped and grim with broken locks, two beds and a single table. A mattress perched on another two tables serves as a third bed. There is no attached toilet. This is where doctors are supposed to catch their breath during long shifts.

“If you ask me for a glass of water, I won’t be able to give it to you. This building has only one Aquaguard,” says Dr Bipresh Chakraborty, a DM Gastroenterology resident at the IPGME&R and SSKM Hospital.

“The. . .

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